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Original Art on sale at The Mayborn

Filberto Chapa is famed for evocative narrative paintings of love and life that almost never fail to feature women. His affection for his hometown of Corpus Christi and for music frequently wink into his pieces--as they do in this depiction of writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest, a native of "Corpitos." Please, note the palm tree and guitar. Ponder the horizontal lines running through the writer's hair, like lines of notebook paper, or maybe, the strings of his beloved guitars. And, yes, there's a nod to the masters Picasso and Matisse in his work.

Title: "Mujer Mundial/Worldly Woman"

Medium and Size: Acrylic on canvas, 48” by 48”

Price: $1,000. (Sale Pending)

Juan J. Hernandez picked through the book "The Heart that Bleeds" and felt pulled to storify, with his brush, one of the most celebrated essays written by Alma Guillermoprieto for The New Yorker. That work from Mexico City in 1990 narrates the sad tale of "pepenadores," garbage pickers. "The article revived in me a concern for a world of consumerism and waste...So my painting became about man and the imagined world of waste that he will inherit someday," Juan says. Depression-era painter Jerry Bywaters comes to mind in this mournful portrait of discarded life under darkening clouds. 

Title: El Rey de Todo

Medium and Size: Acrylic on canvas, 48” by 48”

Price: $1,250 (SOLD!)

Evamaria R. Kutscheid’s toiled in set design, in art restoration and  animated inspiration for aspiring artists in the Dallas arts magnet high school. Here, Kutscheid turns her creativity on Ira Glass--a master story-teller known for This American Life, on the radio and on television. She depicts American life on arrival via three boats “hooked” on the American dream and floating on a sea of red words. And who’s that bespectacled image in the background? Yep, it's Ira poking into the texture of this American life. 

Title: More Pretty

Medium and Size: Acrylic on masonite board, 48” by 48”

Price: $1,200

The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference is grateful to Viola Delgado, Dallas curator, for herding together the creativity. These paintings will be on display at the conference July 24-26 and available for purchase.